Re: [bpfk] {gunma}, {selcmi} and gadri definitions

[John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>]

And Rosta scripsit:

> That dislike and agreement strike me as not very rational. The
> principal grammatical function of lujvo relative to phrases is to
> signal noncompositionality -- a sense other than, and typically more
> specific than, the sense of the unlujvoized phrasal counterpart. 

I'd say that's no longer really true.  Lujvo provide brevity (sometimes)
and satisfy the desire to have separate words for things.  They also
allow cmavo, particularly grouping cmavo, to be omitted:  broda ke brode
brodi can be reduced to brodybrode brodi.

> with the rafsi having merely a kind of mnemonic function.

That's much too strong a claim for modern Lojban usage.  They may not
be fully compositional, but they are not merely hints.

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